Silkscreen & Scribble the inner workings of a hand printed textile studio

Ingredients for a pleasant surprise…

1. Go out for a drive in the snow (bring camera and sensible footwear)
2. Take lots of photographs of snowy winter wonderland
3. Get too cold and go home for hot soup
4. Quickly transfer photos to computer (while soup is heating up)
5. Promptly forget all about photos
6. A couple of months later – find “100 CANON” folder on desktop and think what’s in here?

These photos are from over the Christmas holidays and I don’t think it’s ever been so cold for so long before. Although we didn’t actually get that much snow up here because it was so cold it didn’t thaw out for over 3 weeks. Not so good for getting about but it was so pretty!

I went out to take some winter landscape photos but in the end it was the beautiful ice crystals all over the vegetation that caught my eye. I’ve never seen anything like it, every plant was absolutely covered in delicate little shards of ice twinkling in the winter sunlight.

As lovely as it looked I’m glad it’s finally starting to warm up here now though, I’m definitely ready for spring!

Posted: March 12th, 2010 in photography.
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This is one of the many stunning views in Orkney – Skaill beach. I love the colours of the landscape and the very first leaflet I designed for the business showed my cushions sitting in the marram grass with the sea and blue sky in the background. Since then it’s become one of my favourite spots for product photography – although one does get the odd strange look from people walking their dogs on the beach, as I arrange cushions on the beach and photo them!

I’ve photographed some of my current cushion collection there this summer so I’ll have to get some images uploaded soon to share with you.

In amongst the marram grass there are also some rather impressive umbellifers which inspired my “umbels” design.

I love the sound of the word marram and so many of my designs are inspired by plants, flower and the landscape so it seems like a good fit. Hopefully this goes some way to help explain the new name and so far it seems to have got the thumbs up from most people I know and do business with.

Posted: September 3rd, 2009 in it's all me, me, me, photography.
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